【Kung Pao Shrimp Balls】

Overview

A simple and quick stir-fried dish. It is another New Year dish that can be served as a feast. In fact, the dish can be made in 5 minutes. The only prerequisite is to prepare the kung pao sauce. The shrimp is easy to cook, so you can ensure that the shrimp balls are tender and fragrant in the quick stir-fry time

Tags

• hot dishes
• sichuan cuisine
• chicken essence
• cooking wine
• egg white
• fresh shrimp
• garlic
• light soy sauce
• onions
• peanuts
• rice vinegar
• water starch
• white sugar
• zanthoxylum bungeanum
• ginger
• pepper
• red pepper
• salt
• sesame oil

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Wash and remove the shells of the fresh shrimps, pull out the shrimp threads, and lightly score the backs of the shrimps with a knife (that is, open the backs). You can also leave the tails of the shrimps for a more beautiful appearance

   

2. 2 Add the egg white and mix well, then add pepper, cooking wine, a little salt and starch and mix well, marinate for a while to taste

   

3. 3 Pour light soy sauce, sugar, starch, water, rice vinegar, a little salt, chicken essence, and sesame oil into a bowl, mix well and set aside (shrimp should not be fried for a long time, as it will harden the meat, so the kung pao sauce should be prepared in advance, and the time it takes to stir-fry quickly is about the same

   

4. 4 Remove the seeds from the pepper and cut into small pieces, slice the garlic, chop the onion and ginger and set aside

   

5. 5 Heat a little oil in a pot over low heat, pour in the peanuts and stir-fry until they turn brown, turn off the heat and set aside (be careful not to use high heat, as the peanuts will burn easily)

   

6. 6 Leave the oil and heat it until it is 60% hot. Add in the Sichuan peppercorns, garlic, and chili peppers and stir-fry until fragrant

   

7. 7 Add the marinated shrimp and stir-fry quickly until it changes color

   

8. 8 Add chopped green onion and stir-fry quickly

   

9. 9 Add the Kung Pao sauce prepared in advance and stir well so that the shrimp balls can fully coat the sauce

   

10. 10 Turn off the heat, quickly add the fried peanuts and mix well (you can also use almonds if you don’t have peanuts)